Sublime

Free citizens must be able to choose how they want to live, and equal citizens must have the same power to shape the law as everyone else. Both types of freedom have inherent value, in addition to their instrumental value in protecting one another.

And perhaps, there’s just one amendment I would make to the obligation I was raised with: it’s not just that every generation must make life better for the next—it’s that every generation must make life better than even seems possible to them. The humble recognition that we don’t know everything opens us up to futures we couldn’t otherwise imagine.